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"Hi, I'm Sandy Carter and welcome to my web site. Here you can find links to my books, blog, biography and many ongoing projects in the world of Social Business and beyond. These are exciting times for Social Media and Social Business as well as in both my personal and professional life. This is also the place I will be posting news about speaking engagements and newest publications. Please read and enjoy. Sandy."

Data is an amazingly flexible ingredient. You can use it it reports, in mash-ups, in visualisations, in campaigns, in research and in creating all sorts of social change. The open data cook book will provide step-by-step recipes for making use of open data in a wide range of ways. Right now - we're looking for recipes: ideas on how data can be used to make a difference. 

Digress.it is a WordPress plugin that offers paragraph-level commenting in the margins of a text. Digress.it is geared toward in-depth discussions of longer documents: article, essay or even book-length.

"Use the power of WordPress to transform online content into an electronic book."

"The course will give you umpteen reasons why you should know about social networking, internet tools and mobile technology. One of the biggest is that doing things online is no longer optional. It's an essential life skill, and you and those you serve in the library will face difficulties and frustrations without familiarity in using the internet. The internet is no longer simply a static information silo but the hub for a myriad of activities and this change has been evolving for well over a decade. So many tasks are done online, from applying for benefits, finding the telephone number of the local garage, applying for a job, booking cinema tickets, to keeping track of your friends' birthdays, and much more. This creates a number of challenges for library staff. Therefore, 23 Things for Public Libraries aims equip staff to create, access and advise upon anything from Blogs and Instant Messaging; QR codes, Wikis and eBooks, to the mobile version of your library's website and legal aspects to watch out for."

Create your very own free custom eBook from Wikipedia? And it's pretty simple, and pretty handy. If you want to, you also have the option of ordering a bound and printed version as well, for a reasonable cost.